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No.

For a lot of people who move in from strange places on earth to work at FB/Goog/tech company, making friends is very hard. Hanging out with co-workers has been the primary way for a lot of people I know to have a social life.

I'm a nerdy Asian guy who worked with a predominantly white company and it was very lonely there, because none of the white people want to "hang out with co-workers". However, moving to a larger company really helped me make friends and boost my self esteem. It may be corporatey, but I'm thankful my company atleast cares that much.

For people thinking that this is awesome, the device has received considerable criticism as being total "bullshit".

PandoDaily ran several articles[1][2] about how the device claims to do the impossible - specifically, "caloric intake" and probably "stress level".

Personally, I do think the device is snake-oil and it's better to get a Basis or a Fitbit.

[1] http://pando.com/2014/03/31/as-more-experts-dispute-gobes-bu... [2] http://pando.com/2014/07/03/weird-after-admitting-to-pando-i...

[dead] 12 years ago

Exactly. And those 314 people probably control the country anyway.

Waze claims to do something like and it produces the most retardedly slow routes ever. I just hate it when someone uses Waze on my Lyft because I just know I'll take 10 minutes more.

I don't think it's as trivial because there are lots of things to consider. Some drivers are just SLOW and it will have nothing to do with traffic. Maybe all slow/terrible drivers use your app so all the route speed information is completely based on specific patterns set by your app.

How much of this is a feedback loop?

Being perceived as more competent will open better opportunities and lead you to be happier leading your face to be brighter more often and vice versa.

This is interesting to me, because personally, I feel like on happy days, good things happen, and on sad days, people stay away and it becomes a vortex of pain.

fork() can fail 12 years ago

So. You mean you actually DON'T like to take what he said seriously.

His username is offensive, but you just also gave it credibility.